1 a ghost:
the phantom of his dead father
2 a thing that exists only in your imagination:
Phantoms and chimeras inhabited her brain.
adjective [onlybeforenoun]
1 like a ghost:
a phantom horseman
2 existing only in your imagination:
phantom fears / illnesses * a phantom pregnancy (= a condition in which a woman seems to be pregnant but in fact is not)
3 that people think exists but that in fact does not:
phantom assets / profits
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for phantom is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is phantom a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, phantom is tagged as noun.
Does phantom appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — phantom appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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